Bing Gains 10% Marketshare

samzbest writes "According to ComScore's qSearch, Microsoft's retaliation against Google search, Bing, has gained significant market share, now facilitating close to 10% of US searches. That's a gain of two large points in five months."

Comments

Re:Who would've though?

[MyLongNickName]

I said the same thing about "Slashdot" ;)

Re:Who would've though?

[2.7182]

Yeah. They should have named it 10^1000.

Re:Who would've though?

[shoemilk]

Ned: Ned... Ryerson. "Needlenose Ned"? "Ned the Head"? C'mon, buddy. Case Western High. Ned Ryerson: I did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing! Ned Ryerson: got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate? Bing, again. Ned Ryerson: I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple times until you told me not to anymore? Well?

Phil: Ned Ryerson?

Ned: Bing!

Phil: Bing.

Re:Bigger marketshare than desktop Linux

[turing_m]

If 10% Bing is "shit", then what does that make 1% Linux?

Invisible to writers of malware?

Re:Who would've though?

[Carewolf]

It even works as verb: Keep binging that chicken!

Mod parent up or I curse thee

[Dystopian Rebel]

These increases are very likely to correlate (causally, no less!) to Infection Explorer 8 being pushed hard, leveraging the majority number of computers that have M-Windows installed.

Capitalism is about having or obtaining a large quantity of something at price P, "talking it up" through Marketing or other bovine excrement until people want it, and then setting new price NP > P when they come asking for it.

Or, in clearer Slashdot format:

1) Have a large install base.
2) Push your browser hard onto the install base and set the default page to Bing (just as Google arranged with Mozilla).
3) ???? (bovine excrement)
4) PROFIT!!!

Re:Mod parent up or I curse thee

[rattaroaz]

So you are saying Microsoft is leveraging an existing monopoly to force their way into other markets. Wow, that's pretty clever, and certainly innovative on their part. Surprised they didn't try that earlier.

Re:Who would've though?

[e2d2]

This is not offtopic.

Btw Ned, can you take the day off?

Re:Who would've though?

[Anonymous Coward]

Plus, it is a recursive acronym. BING: Bing Is Not Google.

Re:Bigger marketshare than desktop Linux

[RyuuzakiTetsuya]

can I get this analogy in a term I can understand? Like perhaps Cars per Library of Congress?

Re:Is it trickery?

[Anonymous Coward]

I imagine you having a bar code of your google ID tattooed to your forehead.

Re:The Deal Seekers Are Probably Partly Responsibl

[Anonymous Coward]

Funny story on this one. I was talking to someone about Bing Cashback and so he went to bing and tried to navigate the site and find information about the cashback program. However, he couldn't find anything. We tried using the search and the site navigation, and it was nowhere. I knew I had seen the main cashback page, and simply said to just Google it instead. So, yes that's right, he had to Google Bing (and it was the very first result). I think that is an indication of a search engine failing when you have to use another search to even find it.

Re:Who would've though?

[One Monkey]

They were going to call it:

Microsoft Active Live Artificially Intelligent Search Engine

Except 1) It's not artificially intelligent and 2) that would mean it was called Microsoft Malaise...

Re:Is it trickery?

[h4rm0ny]

If there is nothing wrong with evil then what is "wrong"?

People who dress up little dogs in funny outfits. Definitely.

Re:What the...seriously?

[Anonymous Coward]

I use Bing when I don't want anyone to know what I am searching for. When I need a Hello Kitty Vibrator, I just look it up on Bing, Google doesn't need to know that about me.

Re:Being the new default doesn't hurt either

[zero0ne]

This is because _GOOGLE_ doesn't want you using IE8 to browse their results...

Re:Who would've though?

[turing_m]

Wow, I always thought BING was one of those geek recursive acronyms: Bing Is Not Google

While they are doing that, they ought to rename the parent company: Microsoft Is Not Google Either, or MINGE.